Health Insurance

BerkeleyMom
Thu, 29 May 2008 15:04:27 +0000

My daughter will be at Rice next year and we live out of state. I’m wondering if some of you current Rice students and parents can tell me how you decided to handle health insurance and how it’s worked out. I could leave my daughter on our current plan, and schedule regular doctor/dentist appointments for her when she’s home visiting, plus Rice’s health center for routine stuff. If she had an emergency, our insurance would cover it as an out-of-area emergency, which might be okay, but if she needed regular follow-up care, I’m not sure they’d cover it out of state. Still, it might be cheaper to pay for that out of pocket than to switch her to the Chickering plan that Rice offers. What have other people done about this?